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Romanians took to the streets for a sixth day of protests even though the government scrapped its controversial decree to shield many politicians from prosecution for corruption.
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The Kremlin has asked for an apology from Fox News after host Bill O'Reilly, speaking in a weekend interview with President Donald Trump, stated baldly that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a killer. Trump responded the US has a lot of killers too.
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Memories of their country are sometimes triggered by songs. And the memories they bring up can be bittersweet, or sometimes just bitter.
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A Boston court was one of the first to restrict the ability of DHS to implement Donald Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees. On Friday, the order lapsed — but soon after another, more far-reaching order was put in place.
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Qian Xuesen studied at MIT and then joined the Manhattan Project, the top secret US atomic bomb program. Later, during the McCarthy era, Qian was kicked out of the country after being implicated as a communist sympathizer. Back in China, he went on to become the “father of Chinese rocketry.â€
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How vulnerable is American infrastructure to the threat of a cyber attack? And what sort of response is proportional?
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Vaquitas are found in only one place on Earth: Mexico's Gulf of California. Mexico has been unable, or unwilling, to stop their decline toward extinction. A new legal action is trying to force the US government to step in to save them.
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Why is it so hard to figure out how the universe is put together?
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A new report from the National Academies of Sciences updates an important policy tool authorities rely on to craft federal rules and regulations aimed at reducing the carbon emissions that 95 percent of scientists blame for the warming planet.
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Surviving is not a crime. That's the slogan used by hundreds of undocumented migrants who eke out a living selling trinkets and handbags to tourists on the streets of Barcelona, Spain. Amanda Kersey reports on their burgeoning movement to organize for more rights.
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According to one privacy expert, Uber still needs to prove that it’s removed all personally identifying info from the data
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The US federal Export-Import Bank finances overseas projects to help sell American goods. A new investigation has found that the bank gave coal, gas and oil projects nearly $34 billion worth of loans and guarantees during President Obama’s tenure.
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On Thursday, Yemeni bodega owners in New York declared a strike: They would close for eight hours, from noon to 8 p.m., in protest of Trump's immigration and refugee restrictions.
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Oil and mining industries stand to gain as the US backs out of a rule to prevent overseas oil bribery.
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Britons are having a tough time shopping for vegetables. Lettuce, broccoli and zucchini are among the greens in short supply — so short that supermarkets are rationing them.
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Trump's "dumb deal" comment has put the spotlight on the plight of Australia's refugees. About 2,000 of them are detained in offshore camps and some have been there for years.
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Just weeks before French voters head to the polls, the presidential front-runner is fighting for his political life. And the far right's Marine Le Pen is poised to ride a populist wave to power.
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Gasem al-Hamad and his family live in California, safe from the war in Syria. But now Hamad's brother is stuck in Jordan because of President Donald Trump's suspension of the US Syrian refugee program. It's unknown when the family may be reunited.
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Thirty years ago a new music genre appeared in record stores. But do we even need it anymore?
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When NOAA revised upward its historical data of rising sea surface temperatures, some GOP elected officials went berserk. Now, an independent study confirms NOAA's data.
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For the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders with virtually no involvement from his Cabinet, Congress or federal agencies. Former ambassador and White House official Stuart Eizenstat says Trump's breakneck pace could backfire.
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Nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz talks about the challenges that the Trump administration will face.
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The Trump administration has put Iran "on notice' after a missile test. But confronting Iran militarily would be challenging. US troops stationed in Iraq would be extremely vulnerable.
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Violence in eastern Ukraine is spinning out of control again. Some analysts think Vladimir Putin may be exploiting Donald Trump’s apparent disinterest in the Ukraine conflict.
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As more and more migrants head to Paris, the shelters can't keep pace. Recently, the international NGO Doctors Without Borders brought in a mobile clinic to serve homeless migrants in the French capital.
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"It plays into the narrative that the United States is against the whole of Islam, and administers collective punishment to Muslims."
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“I think when people close their eyes and think of who a scientist is, they don't see a woman,†says Rachel Ignotofsky. Her new book aims to change that.
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Scientists from Iran loom large in the history of American innovation, but some Iranian Americans are considering moving elsewhere.
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Leo Goldberger was smuggled out of Denmark to Sweden during the Nazi-occupation. He's upset by President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the US by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Sarmad Assali, an Orthodox Christian in Allentown, Pennsylvania, supported Donald Trump for president. She was stunned this weekend when his refugee and immigration restrictions meant her relatives were deported back to Damascus.
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At a time when they’re feeling under threat, Texas Muslims flocked to the city of Austin this week to take part in the annual Texas Muslim Capitol Day. Huge numbers of supporters turned out too. But some of the conversations between Muslim voters and state lawmakers are difficult ones.
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The sculpture that later became the Statue of Liberty was meant to represent a woman in Arab dress, standing at the entrance to the Suez Canal.
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Trump's talk of massive tariffs has economists alarmed.
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A 19-year-old Iraqi Kurd and his family were prevented from coming to the US by President Donald Trump's immigration order. Now they are cleared for entry, and as the family regroups, friends and strangers in America are rallying to their support.
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Kinan Azmeh, an award-winning composer and a performer in Yo-Yo Ma’s ensemble, lives in New York. He also happens to be a green card holder born in Syria.
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Trump reminds these Iranians of their former leader, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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The Trump administration has responded angrily to the leak of a dissent memo from foreign service officers criticizing the president's executive order on immigration. Here's how those diplomats are making their feelings known: It's called the "dissent channel."
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The Canadian city isn't used to the kind of violence it experienced over the weekend, when a gunman killed six worshippers praying at a mosque and wounded five others.
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was born in Baghdad but used to visit Mosul with his family frequently. Today, Mosul is nothing like what Abdul-Ahad remembers.
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Many Sudanese Americans are political refugees with deep roots in the US and strong ties back home. Now, some face hard choices.
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On a rainy night, people filed past several police officers and packed into City Hall. They were there to debate whether Newton should position itself as a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants.
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"We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand, divided we fall."
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Mark Krikorian says Trump's executive order is not a ban on Muslims, but just a temporary measure while the US secures its borders.
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This author wanted to tell @realdonaldtrump how his travel ban executive order could backfire, by discouraging Iraqi interpreters and allies from helping the US in the fight against ISIS.
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Over the weekend, hundreds of people arriving at US airports were detained, handcuffed and interrogated about their visas or green cards. Thousands of volunteer attorneys have stepped up to help them.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that sparked chaos and confusion throughout the US, and parts of the world. It limits who can enter the US from seven Muslim-majority countries — in the name of "extreme vetting." Thousands of people were caught up in the aftermath.
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Denise Ajiri has legal permanent residence in the US. She cannot go back to Iran because she is a journalist who has worked for US-government backed media.
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Juliette Kayyem was an official in the Department of Homeland Security under Barack Obama and is now an analyst for various media. She says the ban on Muslims from seven nations entering the US will be a big problem for her former colleagues.
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In an executive memorandum signed on Saturday, Trump elevated Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News, while downgrading the status of the Director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the security council's principals committee.
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Without a nation of their own, the Kurds have been fighting oppression for centuries, all the way to the present day. In fact, Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers are key forces right now in the battle against ISIS. But Kurdish history — a story of persecution, war and resilience — is largely untold. A new museum would help change that.